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Alzheimer disease
Authors:Justin M. Nussbaum  Matthew E. Seward  George S. Bloom
Affiliation:1.Department of Biology; University of Virginia; Charlottesville, VA USA;2.Department of Cell Biology; University of Virginia; Charlottesville, VA USA
Abstract:Alzheimer disease (AD) has traditionally been thought to involve the misfolding and aggregation of two different factors that contribute in parallel to pathogenesis: amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides, which represent proteolytic fragments of the transmembrane amyloid precursor protein, and tau, which normally functions as a neuronally enriched, microtubule-associated protein that predominantly accumulates in axons. Recent evidence has challenged this model, however, by revealing numerous functional interactions between Aβ and tau in the context of pathogenic mechanisms for AD. Moreover, the propagation of toxic, misfolded Aβ and tau bears a striking resemblance to the propagation of toxic, misfolded forms of the canonical prion protein, PrP, and misfolded Aβ has been shown to induce tau misfolding in vitro through direct, intermolecular interaction. In this review we discuss evidence for the prion-like properties of both Aβ and tau individually, as well as the intriguing possibility that misfolded Aβ acts as a template for tau misfolding in vivo.
Keywords:Alzheimer disease  amyloid plaque  amyloid-β  neurodegeneration  neurofibrillary tangle  prion  tau
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